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Sessions and Grassley square off on criminal justice reform

Sally Griffin |Thursday, February 15, 2018

AG Sessions Calls Out Colorado Senator Following Policy Withdrawal

Hours later, Gardner lashed out at Sessions and the Trump administration from the Senate floor.

There is no permanent presidential appointee at the Justice Department in charge of combating terrorism because a Republican senator has put discretionary federal marijuana enforcement above USA national security in his priorities.

As reactions poured in Thursday to ther nation;'s deadliest school shooting in hte U.S.in five years, President Donald Trump focused on the young man's mental health, and Attorney General Jeff Sessionssaid he wants the Justice Department to study how mental illness and gun violence intersect, and figure out how law enforcement can better use existing gun laws to intervene before these school shootings happen.

Speaking before the National Sheriffs' Association winter meeting in Washington, Sessions hit out at Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) without mentioning the lawmaker by name.

You can read Sessions' complete prepared remarks on the Justice Department website or watch the speech on CSPAN. Gardner. "I was disappointed the Federal Administration felt it necessary to return to an archaic, expensive, and failed marijuana enforcement policy".

"We're trying to confirm a number of important component heads at the Department of Justice". That includes a new head of our Criminal Division, our Civil Rights Division, and our National Security Division. But because of one senator's concerns over unrelated political issues-like legalizing marijuana-we can't even get a vote.

"They wanted to call him back every other day for additional hearings about his Russian connection, and I shut them off of that until we had the normal oversight hearing in October I believe it was, see?" I can not and will not pretend that a duly enacted law of this country-like the federal ban on marijuana-does not exist.

We need our nominees confirmed.

USA still struggling for offense against Canada
Finland and OAR, teams that were expected to showcase their recent growth in PyeongChang, unfortunately, came up short. The winners of those games will face off for the gold medal, while the losers will play for bronze.

Chuck Grassley slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter Wednesday after the AG wrote a letter calling the Republican's sentencing reform bill a "grave error".

"It's just too often the case that the perpetrators have given signals in advance", Sessions said.

It would also give judges more discretion in how they sentence non-violent offenders.

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